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How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

Jan 20th in Effects, Photo Effects by Jayan Saputra

In this tutorial, we'll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own stock imagery.

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Author: Jayan Saputra

Hello, I'm an asian graphic designer. I like to share Photoshop techniques and interesting design solutions. I'm open to critiques if you have any!

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Step 1

For this project, I used two nice images that suits for the manipulation; image1, image2. I would like to thank the author of this two great pictures, which is thiquinho and huibidos from sxc.hu. And before we continue with the steps, I need to inform you that this tutorial is written using Photoshop CS3.

Step 2

Let's start with image1, open and duplicate this image by using the Image > Duplicate command from the menu bar. In the Duplicate Image dialog box, you can name it anything you like, but to follow this tutorial reference, name it "PassionFire" and hit OK. By doing this, we kept the original image. Be sure to save.

Step 3

With the "PassionFire" image active, duplicate the "background" layer. Set the foreground and background color to black and white by pressing D on the keyboard. Click the "background" layer again and fill it with the foreground color ~ which is set to black. See the images below.

Step 4

Reactivate "Layer 1," then press Command + Shift + U to apply desaturate command. Now invert the color by pressing Command + I. Your image should look like a film's negative now.

Step 5

Duplicate "Layer 1," then apply the find edges filter from Filter > Stylized > Find Edges. Next, invert the color by pressing Command + I and change the Blending Mode to Hard light. There, your image now has contrast white line and a very dark background.

Step 6

To give the white line more contrast, duplicate the "Layer 1" copy then change the Blending Mode to Screen.

Step 7

Now we move to the second image. Drag image2 into "PassionFire" document image window using the Move tool. If the Paste profile mismatch dialog appears, just click OK to fix it.

Step 8

The fire image from "image2" should be in "Layer 2" now. Change its Blending Mode to screen, this will hide all the black colors in "Layer 2." If done right, your image should be similar to the one below.

Step 9

Duplicate "Layer 2" by pressing Command + J. Make sure you use the Screen Blending mode, same as the original "Layer 2." Next, make "Layer 2" become invisible by hiding it from the layers panel.

Step 10

Click the "Layer 2 copy" to make it active, then use the Free Transform command ( Edit > Free Transform) to rotate and resize the fire image like shown below. Don't forget to press Enter when you're done transforming.

Step 11

Still in the same layer, now use the warp command (Edit > Transform > Warp) to bend the fire image - so it following the hair flow. Press Enter when done. See the example below as a reference.

Step 12

If you feel the result is not quite good enough, simply use the Liquify filter to fix it. I assume you already know how to use the liquify filter; the Forward Warp tool and Twirl Clockwise tool is the only tool I used to get this result (see image below).

Step 13

Duplicate the "Layer 2" copy, then use the Free Transform command to resize and rotate the fire image in the current layer. Don't forget to reposition the fire image too. Once you get this composition (see image below), hit Enter.

Step 14

Repeat the previous process to get the hair covered with fire. Just duplicate and modify the layer until you get all the hair part covered. If needed, use the Liquify Filter again. The end result of this process should look like the image below, notice how many layers are used.

Step 15

Okay, now activate "Layer 2" and make it visible again. Then Change the Blending Mode to Vivid Light. This step will colorize only the white line in the layer below it.

Step 16

Still in "Layer 2," apply the Free Transform command to resize and rotate the fire image like shown below. The purpose is to cover up the girl's body and hair with the fire texture. Press Enter when you're done transforming.

Step 17

We're gonna blur the fire image in "Layer 2," To do so, apply the Gaussian Blur filter from the Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur menu. Fill the Radius around 10 to 15 pixels, then click OK when done. Blurring the fire image will cause its texture to blend smoother with the layer below it.

Step 18

Now add a layer mask to "Layer 2." Then use a soft round Brush tool with Opacity at 100%. Set the brush size according to your need, then just mask until the fire outside becoming hidden. See the process below.

Step 19

Sure we will remove the white line shown in the image (marked in red rectangle below). First, add a new blank layer below "Layer 2." Then simply paint it with black using the soft round brush tool.

Step 20

Now go to the top most layer (mine is: "Layer 2 copy 6"), add two adjustment layers which is Hue/Saturation and Brightness/Contrast. Careful not to change the layer adjustment order, or the color effect will be wrong. Below you can see the setting I used to complete this step, also pay attention to the adjustment layer order.

By adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, we unify all colors. The Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer brings more color contrast and makes sure the image color's looks like real fire.

Step 21

I'm sure you notice the fire sparks effect. I create it using the Brush tool with this simple setting. No special brush needed, but if you have one that will be useful then feel free to use it. Below you can see all the settings I used within the Brush palette, of course you can change the setting as you like. Just make sure the brush spatter enough and vary the size.

Step 22

Now to use the modified brush, create a new blank layer below the adjustment layers ( mine is named "Layer 4"). Choose 50% gray from the swatches palette, then you can start creating the fire sparks. Remember not to be monotone, resize the brush size if needed. I start using a big sized brush, then reduce it to smaller size (you can change brush size faster by pressing the bracket keys on the keyboard ).

If you're not sure how to do this steps, just imagine where and how the fire sparks will flow if it was real fire. For me, imagining stuff is very helpful.

Step 23

To make it more interesting, create a new layer and change the Blending Mode to Screen. Then use a normal soft round brush (not the one we modified earlier), with an Opacity of 50%. Just click in the part of body, neck, and hair. I'm not sure how to explain this, but you can see the difference between the above and below images.

Conclusion

And that's all of it! Hope you learned something new and had fun. You can view the final image below or view a larger version here.

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    Maurizio January 20th

    Very interesting technique! Well done :)

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    cman January 20th

    pretty amazing

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    Tomas January 20th

    amazing

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    Biyified January 20th

    Great tut ..lets play with some fire

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    Frederik January 20th

    Cool, never thught of doing that.

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    Abhishek January 20th

    Really Nice Tutorial, i liked it

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    l January 20th

    lame

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    chris January 20th

    Sugoi

    its totally amazing

    Ang galing-galing ling naman

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    Ewout January 20th

    GREAT!

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    W3Planting January 20th

    very interesting post, love the technique you used.

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    Nobru January 20th

    Great too….

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    DKumar M. January 20th

    Good tutorial Jayan…thanks for sharing !!

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    chet webley January 20th

    that’s really cool.

    also, this is what I like to see on PSDtuts – not just a list of processes to follow, but an explanation of what each process is doing, too. thanks!

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    Zen Elements January 20th

    Love the effect and hadn’t even thought of warping fire like that to acheive it. Silly really when I’ve done it exactly the same with water.

    I will have to play with some new stock images I think..
    Thanks for sharing!

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    Isis January 20th

    Veru interesting…I think the details (especially the fire particles) made all the difference between this good design and a cheap efffect.

    Congratulations!

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    SOSFactory January 20th

    Cool tricks in this tuto, congrats :)

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    Justin January 20th

    i personally think this is a bit odd, and wont be doing it myself, but, the technique is what i do like. it could be useful for other things perhaps. thanks.

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    BroOf January 20th

    Jayan Saputra I love you xD! That’s one of the greatest tutorials i’ve ever seen. Thanks for this!

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    Eric Shafer January 20th

    Kinda reminds me of one of those cheesy filter effects that people make when they first learn Photoshop. It’s okay, but I’ve seen better.

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  20. Cool! If you used a gradient (purple-blue), instead of the orange-yellow color, it would be nice! ;)

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    Cito January 20th

    Wow! That was amazing! :D

    I’ll try to make sth like this with water or lightening image :D

    Great tutorial dude!

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    Jigga January 20th

    MASSIVE !!! THANK YOU !!!

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    Joseph.R.Marritt January 20th

    Extreme colours make this piece look outstanding, hopefully when i can get a half decent SLR ill give this a go as i only have a camera phone for photography at the minute lol anyway thanks for the tutorial, Great work!

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    Diesel Laws January 20th

    Very nice technique, useful effect, thank you!

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    BogDinamita January 20th

    hey man i think that’s really original

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    aMs January 20th

    technique is ok, but the final outcome lacks quality.

    im kinda disappointed of the latest tutorials…

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    Max January 20th

    Pretty good, i like the sparks and cinders flying off.

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    Timothy January 20th

    Very nice. The sparks work really well in this example.

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    Ahmed Zafar Azad January 20th

    greatest tutorial ever
    thanks a lot psd tuts

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    emme January 20th

    Bagus banget bung!!!

    well done!!!

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    Paquo360 January 20th

    Great tutorial dude. Thanks

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    ThaClown January 20th

    Fantastic! ill use this for sure!

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    Jeff January 20th

    This is awesome, thanks a ton.

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    lufutu January 20th

    I’m an asian designer, glad to see you !

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    skut January 20th

    manteb banget :P
    Like it

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    Ryan O. Hicks January 20th

    Pimp.
    Great stuff.

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    Tom H. January 20th

    Great tutorial!

    Thanks!

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    Gensael January 20th

    That is a pretty sweet tutorial man!

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    Dan January 20th

    I agree the particles really made this

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    Psychonaught January 20th

    nice one . really. the small details at the end made this much more interesting and dynamic..

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    RaiserjunioR January 20th

    wow! it’s amazing!

    Thanks !

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    EdpeppeRs January 20th

    great one, man! thank u for this good work.. ^^

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    Faris Nasir January 20th

    dude! i like it~ never thought of trying this!

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    insic January 20th

    hmm asian huh? good job

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      moshiur March 27th

      I love you

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    Eric Thoolen January 20th

    Excellent!

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    Lumzor January 20th

    I love it! Nice and Simple !

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    andrew January 20th

    absolutely love it… thanks :)

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    afrix January 20th

    This is great !!

    http://afrix99.deviantart.com/

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    tomz January 20th

    nice tricks

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      philipo April 18th

      thanks

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    lotoli.net January 20th

    really good..thanks very much

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    Rachelle January 20th

    i love this tutorial! The result is phenomenal!!

    Great Job!

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    Isis January 20th

    Yeah, I agree!

    A gradient bluet-to-purple will give you a great effect!

    =)

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    neil January 20th

    Hot! Get it? HOT! Tee hee hee.

    Seriously though, great work, and nicely written. Thanks.

    Oh, and thank goodness we have President Obama now. The foul darkness is lifting. : )

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    Ruben January 20th

    Fellow Asian! Nice work, very interesting.

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    yehuda January 20th

    what a girl will think of it?
    anyway – it’s very impressing!!!!

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    Albania90 January 20th

    Really nice looks very good. great job

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    awesome-o January 20th

    umm theres actually a way easier way to do this , like eric said theres a filter ….its called filterforge

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    donny January 20th

    bagusss euuy…thanks…jadi nambah elmu yeuhh

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    hyperninja January 20th

    absolutley sick! nice job!

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    chris January 20th

    really great job on the hair

    i just dont care much for the find edges effect you used.. although i can’t think of a better way to make the person look like a glowing ember. but there has to be =]

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    Matthew Heidenreich January 20th

    great tutorial, thanks for the share

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    xQlusive January 20th

    Hey looks good :)

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    Jayan January 20th

    thanks everyone for the comments and support, i’m trying to be original here although the result is not satisfying enough for the rest of us ^_^

    with this many advices, next tutorial will be better!

    ps. sorry for the bad english..

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      Mohamed March 11th

      Perfect well done and instructed you are genius, keep up the good work

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      Mark October 5th

      Can you help me i can’t the same effect of scatter fire?, i follow your instruction but i still same color white instead of the red one?

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        junie October 10th

        i have the same problem as Mark :(
        please help Jayan.

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    awesome-o January 21st

    what is up man really disappointed with the latest tutorials……………

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    senthil January 21st

    great job

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    Chris January 21st

    Could anyone tell my why when I try to add the particles, they are still grey? What have I done wrong?

    cfriedrich@gmail.com

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    Dy January 21st

    I also asian graphic designer.
    thanks for share nice tuts :)

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    crystalprocovers.com January 21st

    Gosh…. A burning Lady.. :>

    Its impresive.. really…
    Good work…
    I’ll gonna use this technique on my new minisite order later :>
    Thanks for the tutorial …

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    babavalibob January 21st

    looks great with coo technique!

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    fthesign January 21st

    very nice tut.

    but somehow remind me of my friend, Tony aka Area105, “Stop Haunted Me Everyday” artworks and his tutorial too. :)

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    tika January 21st

    where do you from? i’m indonesian…
    and love about grapic design..
    a great effect :)

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    geir b nystad January 21st

    nice

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    minisite design January 21st

    OMG, this is awesome dude!

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    Klausy January 21st

    Awesome i have been looking for this effect, thanks guys i will use it soon..

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    P.N. January 21st

    the result is poor.

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      surendar June 16th

      hi…
      What you say?
      poor means…

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    HeavyD January 21st

    Svaka cast

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    crg21 January 21st

    a good tutorial!

    i like the part where you used the free transform for the hair.

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    Robert January 21st

    Alone this effect does not look as beautiful as when combined with a more realistic image. Then it really begins to shine. And I wonder why this tutorial puts all of her body in flames – I mean the hair is brilliant, but the rest of the body could be faded in a more photo realistic / high contrast / pseudo High Dynamic Range way – if you understand?

    Or perhaps it will be considered awful by the censors – who knows – I will experiment with it myself.

    See you in a momo about this.

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    Cesar January 21st

    pretty cool :) , great effect . I must use it !

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    wasserbauch January 21st

    fantastic, i love it!

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    Catherine Tsapelik January 21st

    Oh man!.. A few days ago I decided to write such tut for this site and you’ve outrided me!
    OK, congrats. You did it.

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    SweetOpium January 21st

    awesome effect ! thx for tutorial

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    kpjothi January 21st

    hai great work !!! nice creative!!!

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    Ariful Alam Khan January 21st

    Nice idea. But the girl’s face is looking odd to me, personally. Nevertheless thanks for sharing.

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    psdskat January 21st

    ye nice work about time there was something worth looking at on this site

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    Fakih January 21st

    nice tutorial. I’m very interesting.

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    Scorpiono January 21st

    Wonderful!

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    minanube January 21st

    luar biasa…

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    adinesia January 21st

    its very hot hair ….
    cool

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    Oscar January 21st

    Really cool effect! nice work!

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    Martial January 21st

    Thanks for sharing.
    Two points:
    1 – Nice technique
    2 – Nice explanation, the best I have seen. Easy to follow.

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    Daniel January 21st

    wow, really cooool

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    Zak January 21st

    Easiest to follow tutorial I’ve ever seen.

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    Jimmy January 21st

    …… simply, orgasmic!

    Thanks for the great tut.

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    VaKtang| PsyFAst January 21st

    nice sens=)

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    Tony Ariawan January 22nd

    well done, Jayan.
    Keep it up

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    oni January 22nd

    cool.. nice work bro
    bagus bagus
    mantaaabh

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    Rachmat Hariyanto January 22nd

    Really good! (Bahasa : Bagus banget!).

    Asian? Are you Indonesia? Hebat..lah!

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    Shaw January 22nd

    Hot tutorial man! Keep up the good work

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      Fer April 9th

      Oh sure! They’re the exact same… not.

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    Paris Vega January 22nd

    Good use of the warp tool. Cool.

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    Thomas January 22nd

    Wow, Amazing tutorial

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    Christopher Dykes January 22nd

    i don’t know if this effect is something i would use, but it is a very nice and original effect. the one thing i would suggest when using the scatter brush to create the particles, is to create another layer with particles, and apply a gaussian blur to it. you know experimenting around with the settings, but i think it will help add depth to the image. this is just my personal preference.

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    Jenny Stuart January 22nd

    I really like the idea here! Im plan on trying this later today. :)

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    sierra January 22nd

    dude…that was awesome!!!!gey

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    HybridMuse January 22nd

    ABNORAMALY A W E S O M E

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    Bebo January 22nd

    Wow, what a great tutorial, I think I may use this technique for creating my next couple of bebo skins, would look great on a car also I think.

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    el bomba mayor! January 22nd

    XD bombas!

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    Ollie January 23rd

    Great job bro, keep up the great work

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    Le Minh Phien January 23rd

    You are pro ^^ thank so much for sharing

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    Angiemck January 23rd

    Hi, I really like your tutorial, but you state that that the PSD files and downloadable copies of the tutorial are available via the PSDTUTS Plus. I have checked and its not there. Has it not been uploaded yet.

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    jeff January 23rd

    This is amazing!

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    indigo January 23rd

    you’re a Wiz Man…..Hey, for those whimps trying to give destructive comments, show us what you’ve got!

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    Gabo January 23rd

    Sureal!!!

    Oh yeah!

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    Deven January 23rd

    Hmmmm, Impressive.

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    E-One January 23rd

    good jayan, bagus tuh, telat ngeliat gue neh…. email gue dong: unitrig@gmail.com

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    Ra January 23rd

    This was really nice. It came in handy for a project for me.

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    Pedro January 24th

    simply wonderful…

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    Jayan January 24th

    @innuendo: just because my final result look similar to any other artist work, that doesn’t means i stole their tutorials or idea…

    ah, come on – there’s plenty of this kind ‘fire guy’ effects in the internet, and many of us are curious how to create it.

    i’m just a guy who try to explain how to create it, step by step with MY OWN TECHNIQUE…i didn’t see doing something wrong here…or even plagiarism..? just because i’m asian doesn’t mean the tutorial is not original…

    geez…gimme a break -_-;

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    ash January 24th

    truly amazing …….

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    Alphadan January 24th

    This technique is kind of limited… I can’t think of any other situation where these flames would look nice, other then this one.

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    himangshu January 24th

    one o the greatest technique i hv seen evr

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    Utah Directory January 24th

    This is one of the neatest tutorials I’ve seen: very cool!

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    tommy January 24th

    Wow, Thanks!

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    abdie January 24th

    wow its amazing ! asian ? no surprise ! go jayan go. we suport you work .

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    jmw January 25th

    Waakzz.. keren banget bro…

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    Adam January 25th

    I’m a noob to this site. I’ve used PS for basic image manipulation as a pro photographer. Your tut is simply awesome! Thanks for the inspiration. As for the whingers… get a life! A.

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    geir b nystad January 25th

    @innuendo

    your one funny little person, you just want to be the first one saying ” you stole this” because you get some sick high of it.

    anyway, this is different and WAY better, now grow up!

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    Sean Reynolds January 25th

    @innuendo: I just checked out that tutorial, something you obviously never bothered to do yourself, and its completely obvious that the techniques are different, Jayan didn’t use an orange gradient, but actual fire which was warped. You just looked at an image and decided that because they look vaguely similar Jayan must have stolen it.

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    Dhanesh January 25th

    it’s really nice… great job

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    ST Verschoof January 26th

    Love it

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    fire lover January 26th

    i love it

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    tomy January 26th

    this is great man¡¡¡
    thanks a lot

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    atchaya January 27th

    hai i am newer one to photoshop really u do a wonderful work in this

    tutorial thanks to u share with us

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    shahnaz January 27th

    Shahnaz lodhi
    such a beauty full work.
    i will try to do this work Insha Allah.

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    sniperbait January 27th

    This is great. I wish I had long hair so I could do this effect on a picture of myself!!

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    Antoine January 27th

    Brilliant

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    tophielatte January 27th

    nice work! move forward to your goal.

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    Hendi January 27th

    Waw!!!Are you Indonesian?

    Waw!! Apa kabar??

    Nice Design!Very Great Job!

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    First Name Last January 27th

    Awesome help thanks

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    RUSSELL FOOTS January 27th

    OUTSTANDING ! REGARDLESS OF NEGATIVE COMMENTS, KEEP
    PUSHING FORWARD. PROGRESSIVENESS IS A CONTACT SPORT.
    STAY CONNECTED. AGAIN, THANK YOU.

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    Reader January 27th

    Great tut! Keep ‘em commin’ plz:)

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    Brian January 27th

    I teach high school Photo Imaging and this was one of the most well written on-line tutorials that I have ever come across. Many times producers of these tutorials skip important information and my students get lost in a hurry. Your tutorial was so complete that if they did get lost they could get right back on track quickly. Jayan you did an excellent job. Don’t worry about all the haters and PS snobs. They are the ones who produce tutorials that break down half way through and leave the audience lost.

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    Vasily January 27th

    Nice one, thanks! I followed the steps closely (I thought) but the result turned out to be slightly different from yours. Particularly I was unable to get the same color using the adjustment layers. Regardless, I was quite pleased with the results and the new things I’ve learned. Never stop getting surprised at how many dimensions Photoshop has.

    Thanks again!

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    harene January 27th

    I really like this tutorial.

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    Manish January 28th

    mind blasting…. really like the tut.. thanx for sharing.

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    bhel January 28th

    Amazing!!! nice job fellow asian!!! :)

    pagka-galing-galing!

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    JBFergie January 28th

    Fantastic effect! I can think of many, many situations in which it could be used – including products.

    Thanks for inspiring me – and all of us!

    Best to you,
    Jack

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    Samzabar January 28th

    I tried this i think mine came out pretty good tell me what you think.
    http://flickr.com/photos/samzabar/3233380904/

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    Haley January 28th

    I like it a lot. Nice work

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    Ahmed Murtaza January 28th

    Thank you. This was really helpful. Followed each step and got the perfect result. Thanks once again.

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    Mauricio January 28th

    Wow It’s so cool !!

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    小龜 January 28th

    棒呆了!
    I like it~

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    daveg January 28th

    Wow, awesome. I’m totally going to use this to design some flaming logos for my customers’ websites once I’ve finished going through the chattering skull animated GIF tutorial.

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    sunyoung January 28th

    Wow~~~~~~~GOOOOOD

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    Ali January 28th

    This is really beauty

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    Alim January 29th

    good tutorial

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    jondemon January 29th

    Nice tutorial dude!

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    Johnny January 29th

    There’s a lot of people hating on here.

    Get a life, he’s just trying to help out people that are interested in learning this technique.

    Good job bro, helped me a lot.

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    Mohammed Anis January 29th

    hey,,,, awesome Jayan…!!
    Good work and its easy to follow your steps….!
    keep going bro, and hope u’ll share more tricks later..!!
    Thank you once again.
    Cheers…;-D

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    pravin potdar January 29th

    Great!!!

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    ricardo January 29th

    AMAZING

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    Solid Snake January 29th

    Wery nice work…thank you…

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    Estuardo Rosas January 29th

    Great Tutorial
    Thanks

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    sju January 29th

    wow man its really awesome.. hats off to u…1

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    monxx January 30th

    GOOD WORK THANKS BRO.. PROUD TO BE ASIAN..

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    napo January 30th

    bon tutorial, très bien expliqué.

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    TOPGFX January 30th

    The most beautifull TUT
    in a few min i am going to try this :)

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    justabeginner January 30th

    Excellent tutourial. i made my own right here. C:\Documents and Settings\Totally Me (yup)\My Documents\My Pictures\photoshop\firey boy.jpg

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    DADADOLL January 30th

    you’re good! keep it up. :)

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    n s sunil kumar January 31st

    hi
    nice tutorial
    learned few new tricks
    still i am not very sure about one thing
    about using the various filters

    i just take a chance with them. make all the combination possible.. if lucky i might get what i was looking for, else it would get real frustrating.

    is there way to understand how the filters need to be used to get a desired effect. and save a lot of time?

    plz. teach me if you the solution…

    thank you

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    Chris January 31st

    wow! I never knew how to use the find edges filter effectively

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    Erick January 31st

    Wow! That’s very nice tutorial!

    See my result! http://jperick.deviantart.com/art/I-m-on-Fire-111395864

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    Rusyad Nurdin February 1st

    Kereen…sob!!!!

    I’ll wait for your next tutorial!!!

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    Jon February 1st

    hey this is awesome… it rly helped me understand photoshop a lot better!

    thanks so much,
    see my design based off yours

    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2011854&id=1370460307&saved#/photo.php?pid=30386565&id=1370460307&ref=mf

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    Loïc February 1st

    I love it!

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    Didstyle February 1st

    Really amazing.hats off

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    ploki-desegns February 1st

    Excelent

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    chandru February 1st

    super super super

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    ံံHan Myo February 2nd

    Very Good……..i like this tutorial.

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    Yito February 2nd

    Notable

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    David February 2nd

    interesting tut, first use i’ve seen for the find edges tool.
    can’t say i like the final outcome however… seems to be happening a lot lately with psdtuts’s posts.
    The techniques haven’t diminished much, but the way the techniques are used to portrait the power of them certainly has.

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    parveen February 2nd

    nice one

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    Pablo February 2nd

    Hi great tutorial!!!

    Just a couple of questions,
    1) how many times do u invert in step n5?
    2) im doing everything you say and when im on step n17 the layer 2 appears to be pixelated when i apply vivid light.
    3) and finally, when i add the adjustment layers my pic look to fake and the colors are just too hard….

    if you could answer these questions i´ll be really glad since this tutorial can help me create awesome backgrounds for my laptop thanks!!!!

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    Nishit February 3rd

    thanks for sharing ur skill

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    seth69 February 3rd

    increible

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    Exorzy February 3rd

    Daamn man that was sweet :D ~ ..

    Was wondering if i can give you an idea and you can explain it to me if possible please answer ;)

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    lundstudio February 3rd

    like it. great instruction as well.

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    gurminder February 4th

    Amazing work, i would love to know how you think of these ideas haha….i shall try this on the weekend

    Thank you for sharing as it shows your caring hahaha.

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    Jank1c February 4th

    I need help with this tutorial,can any 1 help me , i want to make something like this but my photo,i need some good disigner or some expert for photoshop cs3 on my msn : zen4kill@yahoo.com

    tnx :$

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    Jayan February 5th

    thanks everyone for your support :)

    if anybody have great ideas to be written in tutorial, i would like to :D just give me some time to learn about new dimension about photo manipulation :)

    ps. if you get stuck with this tutorial, please refer to the screenshot i provide here… i think it’s clear enough

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    alfin kahar February 5th

    amazing bro..

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    xasher February 5th

    very clear but detail guide

    im gonna to vote for u in the best 100 of 2009 when it come out

    now if only i had a bag of flamming cheetos to go with this guide that will awesome
    xd
    keep up the good work

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    youarein February 5th

    nice tut dude!

    here is what I made for one beautiful girl i know;)
    http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9007/vataonfiresmallbs0.jpg

    the step n17 was also for me too pixelated with the vivid light, so I just skiped it and didnt used 3 layers for the outlines and colored it with dodge/burn tools a little

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      Ditofry September 27th

      Lordy, dude. Well played. I’m JUST now getting into photoshop, and this tut has got me addicted, especially when I see its techniques replicated like this… Jayan, that was a badass tut, and you are one bad mama jama. ‘Youarein’, I absolutely love your application of this technique.
      Just had to say it

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    tomy February 5th

    thank you

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    Zach February 5th

    My take on this tutorial,

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/zmuh11/3256300636/

    Was a lot of fun.

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    Jac L. P. February 5th

    Awesome!
    XD

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    Waasys February 6th

    Great Work!

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    darkserger February 6th

    really amazing.But i cannot have your liquify skill,its so good :) I particularly like the hair in step 23 rather than the one in conclusion.Great anyway!

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    Qais February 6th

    WOwwwwwwwwww! very nice what a technique really appreciate your way of thinking….Its wat a designer should have..

    looking for more……
    thanks..

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    Errol February 6th

    I loved this tutorial. And I learned a bit more about using my tools in Photoshop.

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    wow February 6th

    most amazing tutorial i’ve ever seen

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    a February 7th

    wow, amazing ! I’m new to photo shop but its creative. So much to do with it don’t know how to start. Thanks for post!

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    Dque February 7th

    respected!!!

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    agus February 7th

    Easy and amazing tut!!!

    You are awesome

    Bye

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    Deadman February 8th

    Nice tutorial =) 9.5\10

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    Pirat3 February 8th

    awesome!!!!

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    Daniel Linthwaite February 8th

    Amazing Tutorial I really enjoyed it.

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    Daniel Linthwaite February 8th

    Amazing Tutorial, Lovely final outcome.

    - Daniel Linthwaite

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    Marti February 9th

    Hey I have to thank you for posting that Tut! It’s very good and helpful, I learned impressive effects with simple editions.
    Thanks!

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    Johan February 9th

    Nice tutorial, keep sharing :D 9.7/10

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    David February 10th

    it’s so amazing!!, I’m gonna try it ASAP. thanks for the tuto.

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    Eddie February 10th

    Cool technique. Just continue to writin next tuts dude .

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    Gills February 11th

    Really really rox!!
    the best one!!
    congrats from Brazil…

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    The Greyman February 11th

    Absoulutly fantastic…………..Very inspiring

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    nicole February 11th

    Amazing, im just starting, so knowing new tequniques is great!

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    Ashok February 12th

    Amazing work with Great explanation….Thank you

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    pawan February 13th

    Nice work done.

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    raman patel February 13th

    amazing think

    good creativity

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    agyen GHANA February 13th

    am really impressed. tankx

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    Shinjin February 13th

    i have some problem with the color and the fire sparks ( mine are still grey xD )
    whatever i ll try again xd

    Good tutorial

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    Rabin February 13th

    wow
    quite easy but excelent result

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    Saska February 14th

    GoodWork man,i will try now:D

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    Survulus February 14th

    Wow, incredible work with a very nice outcome, helped me learn a lot more about the transform tool.

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    Saska February 14th

    [img]http://i43.tinypic.com/28r1j4p.jpg[/img]

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    Ahmed Elshrkawy February 15th

    perfect work indeed..

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    George, Mumbai February 15th

    Good job, keep it up

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    MirazTutorials February 15th

    jayan youve done an amazing job i love this tutorial and would like to see many more things on fire :) or i might just use these tips and set things a-light myself

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    Andy February 15th

    WOOOOwww…

    Thats a great Tutorial….
    amazing for jayan

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    B.Karthikeyan February 17th

    WOw! Its really nice

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    Amber February 17th

    great!!!!!!!i just need it!

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    Clément Yeung February 17th

    This is an absolutely amazing tutorial! Thank you so much!

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    kapil mongia February 18th

    Really very cool….

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    asiku February 18th

    kerja bagus bung more trick okeee …..

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    devend February 18th

    hey thatsd was to nice buddy get some more

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    lucrecia-pinay February 18th

    WOW !!! very impressive……the tutorial was clean and as clear as crystal….never mind the negative comments jayan…your works are great and truly amazing….keep it coming…..salamat!!!

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    MD walkin February 18th

    Nice… Keep the good tutorials coming. Great finish and not really hard to incorporate into normal use.

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    ashish February 19th

    wow its great thanks for this tutorial.

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    mcakir February 20th

    this girl must be very hot !! awesome !

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    Lee February 20th

    I used a stock photo of Hayley Williams from Paramore
    my attempt
    http://leemccartney.deviantart.com/art/Fire-111600774

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    waqas February 20th

    that was awesome

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    Rakun February 21st

    one of the best tutorials that I have seen, congratulations

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    sokchea February 23rd

    really thank for such a good tutorial. i follow your easy steps and done in
    here

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    Themba Sono February 23rd

    I”m a South African ,Jayan your good bro. Thanx 4 sharring your knoledge.

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    kaafps February 24th

    very nice

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    himel February 24th

    very much alive.good job.can u help me another time.

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    p February 24th

    incredible

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    asian February 25th

    hey! Gr8 work jayan impressed keep it up

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    João Jerónimo February 25th

    Ohh so that’s how it’s done lol… I’ve seen someone with a picture that looks just like that one at deviant art so that’s where he got the idea lol…

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    Zargam February 26th

    That was great…liked it

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    مدونة فواز February 26th

    Explain the stock

    Thanks

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    Kevin February 26th

    Wow!
    ME like :p
    Very nice tut ;)

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    Drac February 26th

    Congratulations! Very well done! Very well explained…

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    Jill February 27th

    The first time I saw it, I saw a dragon !!! not woman. I really like it.

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    mpho February 27th

    hey bro nice tut and is so cooooool! I really liked it.
    Give more of this

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    L-MO February 27th

    Really great tutorial – good for people who are just getting to know photoshop (like me!) and goes to show how simple it can be to do truly amazing things. Thanks for sharing!

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    Michael February 28th

    I love this :D did my own picture
    http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd155/I_Am_Michael/Imonfire.jpg
    Great tutorial :D

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    captain February 28th

    Amazing nd Hard work i love it your work

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    Bystander February 28th

    Dude, like… BRING ON ALL YOUR TUTORIALS!! WOOT WOOT! I frickin’ like the AWSOMELY AWSOME tutorial, and I thought you might have more, so BRING THEM ONNNN!!!

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    GFX Lover! February 28th

    Very Nice Effect!!

    Really awesome!!

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    sam jujubi March 1st

    sensational in photo shop u photo shop gem

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    aditya March 2nd

    nice work.. not very tiresome though effective

    Therfore good work :)

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    tion March 2nd

    wow cooooool~~~~^0^

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    arvin March 3rd

    having problem with step 22… and i cant make the white lines go orange.. but, its still amazing!

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    Uknown March 4th

    AWESOME!!!! …thanks a lot..

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    Alien_13 March 6th

    Very Nice Tuto

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    pranskate March 7th

    cool tutorial man, that´s enough for today xD…
    this´s my firts attempts with photoshop:

    flaming girl take 1: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/8749/passionfire.jpg
    flaming girl take 2: http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/867/mujerf.jpg

    thanks for wonderfull tutorial, be here more often, see you.
    P.D: my english sucks to day xD…

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    Sharief March 9th

    WOW! Thank you!!

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    seeal March 10th

    very nice tuto thx ¡¡

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      seeal March 10th

      here my ¡¡

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeal/3344648141/sizes/l/in/photostream/

      thx again Jayan Saputra for article ^^

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    ZerO March 11th

    Thanks :)

    http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/3980/20080817004001.jpg

    Can I Do My Delicate Girl

    I Want To Keep It Simple

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    Cuddos March 13th

    Why the heck cant i open the image after i have created it in JPG or PNG… i can open it in photoshop but thats it, can i get any assistance please, this sucks! Help me please!

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    Stella March 13th

    I can see I am not the only one who has problems with the sparkling dots staying grey. Can anyone please explain what to do to make them like the fire?
    I have tried several times and read the tutorial again and again, and can’t see what I have done wrong.
    Anyway – very nice work, and the best guide I have seen yet :)

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    Praks March 14th

    wow..buddy..very nice tutorial……thnx for sharing buddy..Keep sharing..
    God Bless you..

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    Kevin March 15th

    Hi, the tutorial is awesome!

    But when I apply Vivid Light, I cant have the result you’ve indicated in the tutorial…

    Here the link for what I get…
    http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5774/test1e.jpg

    I can do some things with multiply, but my result isnt the same…
    I really would thank you for the help…

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      Ryann August 15th

      I think you forget glossian blur or you take a layer for an other, i do the same mistake

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    payod March 15th

    @innuendo: the technique in the tut is different, and its much better here anyways. :|

    my version: http://sites.google.com/site/payodsite/Home/passionfire.jpg

    :D

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    Alexander March 16th

    Hi,

    Great tutorial
    but
    I’ve tried this on a few other pics that i have but around step 15 the white lines turn multicolored and doesn’t make it look as good. is there a way to fix it or cover it up a bit?

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    Villa March 16th

    I’m also an asian graphic designer.
    It’s great for me.
    thanks for sharing this technique to everybody as well as me.

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    Esteban Peralta March 19th

    Hello there!

    Im glad to show you my final version: http://themexican19.deviantart.com/art/Hot-Human-116420975

    I Hope you like It!
    Esteban =)

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    zaimon March 20th

    excelent tutorial…thank you so much!

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    whoobay March 22nd

    Thnk you. nice design work.

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    Martin March 22nd

    Can anyone please help me with the sparkling dots? They’re still grey and I can’t get them in the “fire color” like you? I can see that i’m not the only one who have this problem :( Please help me :)

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      TAZ July 14th

      Hey I’ve got the same problem. They are grey…not the firey colour…. how the effect great work mate..

      if you could help out with the fire spark bit that would be much appreciated..

      cheers

      ( Reply )
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    TAMIL March 25th

    VERY NICE
    &
    IMPRESSIVE

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    dinesh March 25th

    its realy imaging

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    szopszop` March 29th

    I tried to do sth like that, but with water. Here is my result:
    http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5409/wodne.jpg

    I couldn’t find better photo of water.

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    jsgm March 30th

    hey i love this tut one of the great one in psd i did it myself but made some mistakes and came out lokking pretty noobish obiously i didnt use the same pictures but i use a whole diferent look love this tut keep posting and im gonna do this one once again try to get it right this time and do it really nice maybe post the pic and i would wanna know what the author thinks about it and tell me how it looks with another outlook.

    NICE xD

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    winni April 1st

    I like this tutorial so much ;-) thank you :D

    ( Reply )
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    Rony April 2nd

    This tutorial was great… :)

    ( Reply )
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    Ivan Batalla April 2nd

    Geat tutorial!

    Thank you!

    I am using your technique with a dragon. But I am stock on one of the last points. I made the dots and they appear GRAY! if i meke them yelow it looks very burring, not like your super dots. what do you do to color the dosts?

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    Ghost89 April 2nd

    OMFG! Very good! :P

    ( Reply )
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    Prasanna Jathan April 6th

    rEALLY NICe, Thanks for sharing

    ( Reply )
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    Phill April 6th

    Great tutorial.I am gonna try this :-)

    ( Reply )
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    athyun April 6th

    it is a great effect i never seen right now ,i is good work .

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    carlos April 6th

    Thought I’d have a play around with a couple of my own pics
    link

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    Neli Sestari April 8th

    Great job, man!!! it’s fantastic!!!

    I want use your tut to made my new CD. thanks for sharing…

    ( Reply )
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    ragow April 9th

    very very amazing

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    Mi April 9th

    Nices tutorial….

    but… Someone has copied this tutorial :(

    http://www.solophotoshop.com/tutorial/mujer-de-fuego-con-photoshop/680/

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      Fer April 9th

      How outrageous!!! Excuse me for a minute, I’m gonna go post some comments over there. I think we should all do the same, for the sake os Jaya’s work. Not even the slightest attempt to give credit…

      Unless they’re the same person, which is not likely,

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        sapna May 28th

        this is a veryyyyyyyyy great effect.
        goodddddddddddd
        thanks 2 introduce it

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    aan April 10th

    Awesome

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    james April 12th

    sweet tut

    ( Reply )
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    james April 12th

    great tut

    ( Reply )
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    NANOOK April 12th

    THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST TUTORIALS I’VE EVER COME ACROSS!..
    AND WHAT A RESULT!!…PURE MAGIC MY MAN!…
    KEEP IT UP!…AND A WICKED SITE TOO!!!.
    NOW IN MY FAVORITES……..

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    Jose Luis April 13th

    Congrats very very good tut.

    ( Reply )
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    vieja del agua April 14th

    lindo

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    Gary April 15th

    Thoroughly enjoyed the tutorial! Very well done. Not a technique I’d tried before and 1st attempt wasn’t too bad.

    FAO those who got gray sparks – I ignored changing to 50% gray and used the color picker tool to select part of the flame’s colour, painted a few spots around, then chose another part of the flame and so on. Worked ok. :o )

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    Aleron April 20th

    wow amazing effect :)

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    Olakunle Anwoju April 21st

    Im realy impresse, i use more corel draw, bt now i think i av to get use to CS. Well done job.

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    Kovi April 23rd

    amazing

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    Jay April 26th

    many thanks for all of the support here, i’m working on new tutorial now! hope you guys would like it too…

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    mike April 26th

    I am new to this and mine looks like crap

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    Gyrel Dagooc April 27th

    wowo!!! Awesome!!

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    beenerpoe April 29th

    here’s mine (its kinda scene lol)

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/37976892@N08/3486371415/

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    Venky April 30th

    great, amazing, excellent work

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    jh rahman May 1st

    nice tut bro

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    Aidin May 1st

    you are perfectttttttttttttttttttttttttt

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    Menon May 1st

    amazingly superb

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    cdnipps May 1st

    This asian guy is a beast not doubt about it

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    Gerrit May 4th

    Thanks, really good tutorial and easy to follow.

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    Sumithra Wijayantha Thilakarathna May 4th

    I love the tutorial! thanks for the info! ^_^
    *****************************************
    here’s mine
    http://swtart2000.deviantart.com/art/Fire-121275558

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    varcz May 5th

    what a great tuts!
    thanks a lot!
    I’ll try your tuts to my pic!!

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    Marcelificus May 7th

    Se agradece ;)

    Saludos

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    Payday Land May 8th

    No lie mate. That was sensational on soo many levels. Great FREE tutorial!

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    Jinx May 8th

    That is breathe takingly stunning.
    I might just buy a newer version of PS just on the basis I want to be able to create magic like this.

    Amazing.

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    photo retouching May 10th

    A really great bit of photo retouching which was really easy to follow! Thanks for sharing!

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    Teggin May 12th

    aha sick!
    Favourited :)

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    Muhammad Ahmad May 13th

    I’ve learned a lot, nice flaming effect, thank u.

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    fajri May 13th

    awsome….amazing design..thnx’s for share.

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    darwin May 14th

    the best ever dude!!!! youre the man!!!!!!

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    tHE bLANKON May 14th

    WOW…..

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    mike joke May 18th

    GR8! thank You!

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    bineet chaubey May 19th

    fantastic ……………….

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    Raistlin Majere May 21st

    OMG!!! this is amazing… I love it… great tutorial to… easy to use… Great job

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    hammy May 26th

    Wow! Just blew me away.

    Awesome effect, great technique…

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    Alovatt May 30th

    i do everything exactly to what you said to do, maybe with the little placements of the hair…. but still, it turns out terrible compared to yours… im using cs4 though, but it still shouldnt make that big of a difference

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    AMDgrace June 3rd

    I tried this, everything the way you said and it did not work. Sorry but this isn’t a good tutorial. Better luck next time.

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      Dullface June 5th

      Youre doing something wrong then, its so easy to follow and it “works” fine.

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    amber June 8th

    it’s grate!thank you!!!!!

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    Han Q June 12th

    I had alot of fun creating this, Thanks dude =)

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    moroccanist June 13th

    It so hot … I mean it realy burns !!!

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    barcelona pics June 15th

    excelent!!

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    Seb June 19th

    I love tour work, I’m a biginner but with more time I’m succes.

    Thanks for this good tutorial

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    Nyamutale June 19th

    i need it as a pdf pliz. i dont have internet at home and its really some good stuff.

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    Af June 22nd

    Dude, this is the best tuto ever….
    thank you a lot

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    Theo June 24th

    WOW this is very useful tecknique, very “cool”. Excelent work Jayan!!! You are amazing designer. Thanks for sharing it with us!!!

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    Asoc June 24th

    Nyamutale, Just go to your browser and click File Save As… Depending on what browser you use you will have slightly different options here. You will want something that will include the pictures. Look for something that is similar to Webpage Complete. That should get you the right setting. If you have any problems reply and I will try to help you out.

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    Aju Krishnan June 29th

    Amazing……….
    Its great to learn these techniques to convert simple looking photos to great pieces of art

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    Hassan June 29th

    Brother..
    it is very awesome… i really enjoyed when i am working on it..

    thanks..

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    Takanobu Izukawa July 3rd

    it’s very awesome!!

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    faho July 3rd

    really cool

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    karn July 4th

    hardest part is finding images of what you have on mind

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    adi July 6th

    god job guy, n thanks for u’r learn

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    Mikael July 7th

    Very nice! Also, perfect picture to use this on :) Excellent work and thanks for sharing.

    /Mikael

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    sameer memon July 11th

    I am New In photoshop Tutriol I like to be a good in photoshop help me more my friend\

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    kangmas July 15th

    hmm ..lumayan lah…hi hi

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    SAM July 16th

    g8t THout..

    Nic WOrK.

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    moncos July 20th

    apik2…. thanks cuy!

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    sahdev thakur July 21st

    great job

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    Sesa July 21st

    Great tutorial

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    Jai July 23rd

    Excellent tutorial, thanks for taking the time and effort to put it together. I had a reasonavle result with one of my images, but not as good as your original piece.
    I think this is a style and method, I’ll use and tweak for a good while yet.

    Thanks.

    Jai.

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    Pickle July 24th

    Amazing Tutorial, your a LEGEND!!! Can’t wait to try dis.

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    Ioxna July 28th

    At no point in recreating this did any of it work. I tried doing this to a sword, I had white poping thru the flames. I could not blend the layers together.

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    son July 30th

    good job

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    Diego August 2nd

    Great tutorial, i alredy finished with the original picture used by u and now i’ll adapt this to some other pics that i like.

    Thanks again!

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    mohd August 4th

    anyone know how to make the color of fire sparks because when i tried to use the brush tool and make the fire spark,its color is like gray and doesnt look like fire

    anyone please?
    thanks

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      Jai August 12th

      That’s the only stumbling block I had too … help? :)

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    Eric August 4th

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    Najeebullah August 9th

    Its really wonderful. hope to see more such good samples

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    Ryann August 15th

    Hello thank for this tutorial , i make my own flaming woman but i change some details this mine creations :
    http://lemondederyann.designblog.fr/55887/Fire/

    my Wyclef Jean in fire :
    http://lemondederyann.designblog.fr/55913/Fire-2/

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    Shlomit August 17th

    Hi
    thank you for this tutorial I will try it now
    and let you know what I got

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    STANLEY August 19th

    HAI! GREAT WORK YAR….I TRIED IT BUT CAN’T COME TO UR PERFECTION…ANY WAY VERY NICELY EXPLAINED…..EXPECT MORE FROM U***

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    alessia August 20th

    I try this tutorial but i lost the street in the middle XD
    anyway i continuos by my self following you more that i can and this is my (embaracin) resut! XD
    (the photo is by http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/ )
    and this is my photomanipulation:

    http://i31.tinypic.com/1zb5v5w.jpg

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    Hassan August 21st

    very nice !

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    vicente August 25th

    I dont know if you guys noticed it but if you erase the face and the body you can see a perfect fira dragon

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    Daniel August 27th

    ohhh!! very good! you are the men!

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    L August 28th

    Exelent tutorial I did this technique whit John Lennon:

    Exleente tutorial hice esta tecnica con John Lennon:

    John Lennon On Fire

    http://lmef2009.deviantart.com/art/John-Lennon-On-Fire-135003885

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    Michael September 7th

    wow, it makes me burn myself and smile . Bloody great job

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    EXiUS September 14th

    i love what ur tut did to my skills

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    EXiUS September 14th

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/20735708@N07/3921637422/

    not what i’d like to consider final draft, but there it is!

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    Razor September 16th

    Damn! You Goode. as a South African Graphic Designer, Im gona kick butt down here

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    RaXsO September 17th

    Very impressive! I’m gonna give it a try right now.

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    Lucky September 19th

    Doing well hahaha

    Awesome. .

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    FataleLieberi September 27th

    It’s so damn cool!! Never thought how to do that until you wrote it here!
    Many thanks!!

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    kastrielle October 1st

    Hey, the making of sparks is not applicable because when i chose the gray color and make it 50%, the color w=that will appear is white not the sparks color!!!!!!!

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    Eddie The Ripper October 1st

    SICK! ima try it out

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    tonella October 2nd

    I liked ur work so much and I tried something similar

    http://tonela.deviantart.com/art/Flames-138967942

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    gaung indrya October 6th

    woooww, you makes us proudly Jayan… long life

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    christina October 7th

    cool!! it hard to do even with the instructions ur smart

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    wandy October 8th

    damn!!cool!!!

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    HeLLGirLss October 9th

    help Ctrl + I no :( ((

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    jason mays October 9th

    absolutely amazing

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    Luiluise October 15th

    love it!!

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    Werewolf October 16th

    very good job Jayan!
    thanks for shering

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    Jud October 16th

    I currently only have CS4. any idea how to do it on cs4? cos i’m stuck on the step 4. it can’t seem to give a negative shot.

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    Blackbonez October 22nd

    Great tutorial!

    i liked it :) !

    it’s a pretty tut to learn for photo manip :)

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    Bosrat October 24th

    Great tutorial, just what i was looking for.
    And also verry good for someone like me who is new, it is verry easy to follow it step by step.

    Thanks verry much

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    AMee October 27th

    Hey Dam Good….

    Really hot

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    Tanya October 27th

    This is amazing, and I can’t wait to try it however, I only have CS2. Do you think it would be a lot different?

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    ahyab October 27th

    OMG this is awsumness…right here!!!

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    Jose October 27th

    Wooow…. very nice.

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    LPArabia October 27th

    Too much work
    I’d rather to set the girl’s hair on fire and take a pic…than doing all the steps XD

    Good work asian boy

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    Luis Carlos Barbosa Monsalve October 27th

    good tutotrial!!!

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    mena October 27th

    thanx man … ur awesome

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    AMANITO October 28th

    very nice great

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    Nousey October 28th

    creativity at 100%

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    Red Aguilar October 28th

    i realy like it so much!>. nice technique dud!.. i’m glad u’v shared!..=)

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    relampagoindio October 28th

    buen trabajo good work

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    powerwaqas October 28th

    Damn Nicee Work how to your test brian.really goood pic

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    sigrid October 29th

    very cool….great toturial

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    R(T) October 29th

    Very nice tutorial! Here’s one that I creatd after reading this http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruetama/4054357299/

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    eleonora October 31st

    I love very much this effect, and now I try to reproduce.
    Thanks a lot for your clear explanation !!!

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    mark November 1st

    galing mo chong..

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    Dan November 1st

    can you tell me how to make the sparks cause I choose 50% gray and all I get are gray spots

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    hind November 4th

    realy nice work
    Congrat !!

    well, this is my work
    PassionFire TUTO.jpg

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    hind November 4th

    realy nice work
    Congrat !!

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    HEMA November 5th

    I swar good Job man

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    Kevin Walker November 9th

    i dont understand step 12 because i dont know how to use the liquify filter.. can u help and tell me what u did

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    Alexei November 10th

    Great tutorial, thanks a lot, but it would be better for all (you and us) if you made a video tutorial instead of writing all this

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    wil November 10th

    is there anywhere i can get the fire picture without registering at that website?

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    Helmi November 12th

    Thanks bro..I hope can meet u and learn more about designing picture..Good explanation and details..Keep it up..

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    Adil November 14th

    MAntap , GAN!!!!!

    COOL…, Boss!!!!!!

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    peaarl November 14th

    superb………… very nice and hot

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    shraddha November 17th

    It’s Damn good!! thanks for sharing..

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    badawy November 18th

    amazing :)

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    Thanos K. November 19th

    Fantastic… Thank you

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